Re: [slim] domestic fm transmitters

2007-08-10 Thread Victor Brilon
second that one. The reason I bought it is that the schematics for it were available online. 2 minutes after I got it in the mail, I had it opened, turned one variable resistor a bit, and I had FM transmissions with crystal clarity to everywhere in my house. Victor

Re: [slim] Nokia N800

2007-06-24 Thread Victor
for the device? It drastically improved youtube watching. It's still far from perfect, but it's better than it was before. -- Victor I'm against animal testing. They get all nervous and give the wrong answers. Victor's Profile

Re: [slim] Nokia N800

2007-04-08 Thread Victor
Have you updated to the latest N800 software that was released about 2 weeks ago? I seem to recall some bug fixes for the browser were included in the release. Maybe it'll help your situatuion -- Victor I'm against animal testing. They get all nervous and give the wrong answers

Re: [slim] SlimTray.exe unresponsive and huge

2007-02-25 Thread Victor
is at best useless and at worst arrogant and rude to the developers of the software. -- Victor I'm against animal testing. They get all nervous and give the wrong answers. Victor's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com

Re: [slim] Nokia N800 Remote

2007-02-24 Thread Victor
. -- Victor I'm against animal testing. They get all nervous and give the wrong answers. Victor's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2181 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33070

[slim] Re: Introducing..... me!

2007-01-27 Thread Victor
. Please...just *please* stop this nonsense. Stop speaking authoritatively (or even guessing) about things you know nothing about. If you want to know why people here consider you rude/abrasive, this is exactly why. Statements like this are borderline FUD and you need to knock it off. -- Victor I'm

[slim] Re: Introducing..... me!

2007-01-27 Thread Victor
nothing about? Screw it. I am done feeding this troll.*Plonk* http://catb.org/esr/jargon/html/P/plonk.html -- Victor I'm against animal testing. They get all nervous and give the wrong answers. Victor's Profile: http

[slim] Re: Introducing..... me!

2007-01-26 Thread Victor
, Oracle, IBM, Nokia, and thousands of other companies to tell them that the GPL is preventing them from selling the software they have in the marketplace. -- Victor I'm against animal testing. They get all nervous and give the wrong answers

[slim] Re: Nokia N800

2007-01-23 Thread Victor
streams just fine -- Victor I'm against animal testing. They get all nervous and give the wrong answers. Victor's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2181 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com

[slim] Re: Visa and Mastercard Cut Off AllofMP3

2006-11-29 Thread Victor
Dmitry Sklyarov when he was in the US? Details here for those unfamilar with the case: http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,45298,00.html If you don't agree with Sklyarov's arrest, please explain the differences in legal principles between the two cases. -- Victor I'm against animal testing

[slim] Re: Visa and Mastercard Cut Off AllofMP3

2006-11-29 Thread Victor
and ASCAP and BMI don't deal with Russian artists), and then they tried to pressure MC/Visa to stop accepting orders from iTunes -- would you feel any different? -- Victor I'm against animal testing. They get all nervous and give the wrong answers

[slim] Re: Open Source Dream Falls Apart?

2006-10-26 Thread Victor
of using and distributing GPL'ed code (i.e., making the Linux kernel part of your app) versus linking to a GPL'ed library is not nearly as clear cut as you described. -- Victor I'm against animal testing. They get all nervous and give the wrong answers

[slim] Re: discuss Digest, Vol 36, Issue 64

2006-10-20 Thread Victor Filepp
I've read the 27 pages(probably 28 by the time I post this) of thehand-wringing, grousing, congrats, and various 'special interest'concerns about the Logitech acquisition, and am, for the most part,amused. I suppose that, because of my age, I see things a bitdifferently and prefer to look at this

[slim] Re: Album art via CDDB on the fly?

2006-09-13 Thread Victor
welcome more testing. -- Victor I'm against animal testing. They get all nervous and give the wrong answers. Victor's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2181 View this thread: http

[slim] Re: Album art via CDDB on the fly?

2006-09-12 Thread Victor
kyleki, I am not sure what's going on there. Email me off-list (slimp3 AT victorland.com) and we'll figure it out. No need to hijack this thread for a discussion forum for support for my software :) -- Victor I'm against animal testing. They get all nervous and give the wrong answers

[slim] Re: [BEG] Please please can we have the 770 skin optimised for PSP [/BEG]

2006-09-12 Thread Victor
I bet if someone bought Ben a PSP he'd be a lot more motivated to build a skin a for it :) -- Victor I'm against animal testing. They get all nervous and give the wrong answers. Victor's Profile: http

[slim] Re: Album art via CDDB on the fly?

2006-09-03 Thread Victor
plug type=shameless I wrote some code to do exactly this. Check out: http://victorland.com/slimp3 Enjoy :) /plug -- Victor I'm against animal testing. They get all nervous and give the wrong answers. Victor's Profile

[slim] Re: Album art via CDDB on the fly?

2006-09-03 Thread Victor
with data you have no control over (i.e. original image size)? -- Victor I'm against animal testing. They get all nervous and give the wrong answers. Victor's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2181

[slim] Re: ESPN Radio

2006-08-23 Thread Victor
it pretty impossible to listen to while I watched. -- Victor Victor's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2181 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26658

[slim] Re: Poll: CD Ripping

2006-07-20 Thread Victor
: Would you be interested in an easy to use CD-Ripper - Yes - No - Not for me, but for others Sounds useful, but is it a Windows only solution? -- Victor

[slim] Re: Squeezebox is great- for bitheads

2006-07-13 Thread Victor
this easy (easier?) to do . Check out: http://victorland.com/slimp3 /plug -- Victor Victor's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2181 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25462

[slim] Re: Squeezebox is great- for bitheads

2006-07-12 Thread Victor
wunder Wrote: SlimServer needs an interface which does: 2) Auto read CDDB/Album art. Just out of curiosity, where do you propose that Slim magically get all the album art from? -- Victor Victor's Profile

[slim] Re: Squeezebox is great- for bitheads

2006-07-12 Thread Victor
by say a $100 or so. -- Victor Victor's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2181 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25462

[slim] Re: Squeezebox is great- for bitheads

2006-07-12 Thread Victor
a thread like How can we help new users get their CDs ripped easier?, I'd be happy to have a dialogue with him. Until then, he's just blowing hot air. -- Victor Victor's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid

[slim] Re: Squeezebox is great- for bitheads

2006-07-12 Thread Victor
and decide they know everything that's wrong with the world and they can fix it. I am all for exchange of ideas and suggestions, but the posts of This product is doomed unless you do this are a tad bit insulting to all the folks who have worked so hard on this product. -- Victor

[slim] Re: Squeezebox is great- for bitheads

2006-07-12 Thread Victor
as to how to make that happen. I feel pretty confident that if introducing this functionality would double the sales of Squeezeboxes overnight, SDI might have already thought of it by now :) -- Victor Victor's Profile: http

[slim] Re: Squeezebox is great- for bitheads

2006-07-12 Thread Victor
bigger company. Then they become grateful that you haven't stepped on them as you pass by. *ding* That exactly what I was getting at in my post about the artwork. You'd need to license the artwork from someone, and that cost gets rolled into the price of the Squeezebox. -- Victor

[slim] Re: OS X problem with fresh install

2006-06-11 Thread Victor
in getting this diagnosed. -- Victor Victor's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2181 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24630

[slim] OS X problem with fresh install

2006-06-10 Thread Victor
considering the previous release (sorry don't remember what version) was working fine. Starting up the server in debug mode, I see this in the logs: 006-06-11 00:07:04.5434 Odd number of elements in anonymous hash at /Users/victor/Library/PreferencePanes/SlimServer.prefPane/Contents/server/Slim/Web

[slim] Re: OS X problem with fresh install

2006-06-10 Thread Victor
that I see are: file error - html/ajax.js: not found file error - crumblist: not found So what causes that? And why is Fishbone broken on a fresh install? -- Victor Victor's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php

[slim] Re: OS X problem with fresh install

2006-06-10 Thread Victor
caused myself :) Just trying to figure out how this managed to happen in the first place. -- Victor Victor's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2181 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com

Re: [slim] Re: OS X problem with fresh install

2006-06-10 Thread Victor Brilon
On Jun 11, 2006, at 12:51 AM, kdf wrote: On 10-Jun-06, at 10:37 PM, Victor wrote: Is there another place I should be looking for leftovers? Files potentially get stored in /Library/... and ~/Library... Yep. Checked both of those. I just did a 'find' though on anything Slim related

[slim] Re: Live365 Rant

2006-06-07 Thread Victor
a letter to General Motors complaining that your car can't get out of the garage because you don't know how to operate the garage door. -- Victor Victor's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2181 View

Re: [slim] AM I INVISIBLE?

2006-05-04 Thread Victor Brilon
In addition to kdf's good advice, you should also remove the rpm via the 'rpm -e' command so that the database will be in sync with what's actually going on. Victor On May 4, 2006, at 10:13 PM, kdf wrote: On 4-May-06, at 7:54 PM, Michael Haan wrote: Yes, that's true. I signed-up

[slim] Re: 6.2.2. OK now! This is fun! NOT!

2006-04-29 Thread Victor
Radish, That's one of the best put posts on the topic I've ever seen. I suggest saving that somewhere, so the next time an unruly child wanders onto this playground, you can just point him at the post. Victor -- Victor

[slim] Re: Nokia 770 Skin

2006-04-20 Thread Victor
, but every time I run into their marketing guy in the office I bug him about how they should send you tons of free stuff :) -- Victor Victor's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2181 View this thread

Re: [slim] Re: Product Announcement: K.R.O.N.O.S

2006-04-01 Thread Victor Brilon
? Victor On Apr 1, 2006, at 5:15 PM, mrfantasy wrote: Since the battery life is so low, will the thing support an external power connection? That way I can just get a long extension cord and drag it around the house. Of course, I would only use a linear power supply. -- mrfantasy --Mike

Re: [slim] white Noise - WANTED

2006-02-19 Thread Victor Brilon
noise, that's easy enough to generate. I uploaded it to my server to save you the trouble: http:// victorland.com/white_noise.wav Victor On Feb 19, 2006, at 2:24 AM, Eserim wrote: OK, a change from topics complaining about random white noise, here's one requesting it. With a 4 day old baby

Re: [slim] Re: Nokia 770 Slimserver- Any regrets?

2006-02-10 Thread Victor Brilon
. That is exactly what I hope the Slim/770 union someday to be. Simple, cover-art based music selection, just like a jukebox. Might not ever happen, but it can't hurt to dream... #!/ben You know...if someone was good enough with Flash, I think that would very do-able and would look great on the 770 Victor

Re: [slim] Re: NY times/ Pandora

2006-02-10 Thread Victor Brilon
And of course, we were the first ones to surgically graft telephones to every teenage girl in our country. ;-) Nope that would be the Japanese. Or maybe the Finns :) Victor ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http

Re: [slim] Re: Nokia 770 Slimserver- Any regrets?

2006-02-09 Thread Victor Brilon
Just out of curiosity, did you update the software at all? The latest maemo.org release did some phenomenal things with memory management which improved performance quite a bit. Victor On Feb 9, 2006, at 12:52 PM, mattg wrote: I returned my 770 after two weeks. I bought it primarily

[slim] Re: Any Perl programmer want to make a few bucks?

2006-02-05 Thread Victor
Sorry for the off-topic spam :) If a mod wants to nuke this thread, feel free to do so -- Victor Victor's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2181 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com

[slim] Re: Any Perl programmer want to make a few bucks?

2006-02-04 Thread Victor
. If that's not the case, let me know as well. -- Victor Victor's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2181 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20753

[slim] Re: Any Perl programmer want to make a few bucks?

2006-02-04 Thread Victor
in the directory you call the script from and names them after the directories it looked in. I chose to have an underscore replace slashes in the name of the dir. Hope this works for ya. Victor +---+ |Filename: tagger.txt

Re: [slim] Re: Are you willing to pay for a Sirius Radio plug-in?

2006-02-04 Thread Victor Brilon
Wow, good thing you're not painting with too wide of a brush there. Sheesh. Want to know who pays to listen to Stern? Me and about the 2.5 million other listeners who bought Sirius for Howard. And *that's* why he gets paid the money he does. You don't like him? Fine, he's not for

[slim] Re: Any Perl programmer want to make a few bucks?

2006-02-03 Thread Victor
Post more specifics please. This sounds like a 2 minute code dump :) -- Victor Victor's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2181 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20753

[slim] Re: Any Perl programmer want to make a few bucks?

2006-02-03 Thread Victor
ok that's a bit more than a 2 minute brain dump :) I am up late tonight, the baby doesn't feel like sleeping, which means no one in the house sleeps :) Soon as I get a 10 minute break in the action I'll whip this out for you -- Victor

Re: [slim] cd covers

2006-01-26 Thread Victor Brilon
self-promotion type=shameless http://victorland.com/slimp3 /self-promotion Enjoy :) Vctor On Jan 26, 2006, at 11:47 AM, Johnathan Hershbaum wrote: Hi All Is there any simple way of automatically collecting cd covers for a windows xp machine. -- Best regards, Johnathan

[slim] Re: cd covers

2006-01-26 Thread Victor
Sorry for the self-promotion spam :) I read this forum via email and didn't see that someone else had posted my link before I did. -- Victor Victor's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2181 View

Re: [slim] nokia n80

2006-01-02 Thread Victor Brilon
a recent Series 60 devices (like the N70) in a Nokia shop and see what you think about it. If there's enough interest, I might be able to get someone at work to loan me an N80 and I can take some screenshots of what a Slim interface looks like on it. Victor On Jan 2, 2006, at 4:40 AM, kefa

Re: [slim] Re: nokia n80

2006-01-02 Thread Victor Brilon
leave from work for a month or so, but when I get back I'll track down someone who can loan me one of these toys. Victor ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

[slim] Updates Amazon cover art script

2006-01-01 Thread Victor Brilon
crash 100%, so I'd like to hear from you as to what doesn't work. Also, there's a bugtracking system set up at http://victorland.com/ slimp3/flyspray/ where I'd like to hear from you with any suggestions/ fixes/ideas/bugs you think of. Thanks everyone! Victor

Re: [slim] Re: Nokia 770 Skin

2005-12-23 Thread Victor Brilon
! I've been running various Slim devices (since the first one) on an OS X box (panther, and now on tiger). Works just perfect. And yeah, the 770 is sweet :) Victor ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists

Re: [slim] Re: TouchScreen Skin

2005-12-21 Thread Victor Brilon
This looks fantastic! Nice work. Victor On Dec 21, 2005, at 10:58 PM, bklaas wrote: Nokia 770 skin is already available for 6.5 slimserver, and I may have a working 6.2 version tomorrow or next week. When I do, I will post that info to the general forum. I've been talking on the dev forum

Re: [slim] Re: Okay! A seemingly semi-reliable solution - SB3 Wireless

2005-12-19 Thread Victor Brilon
On Dec 19, 2005, at 11:04 AM, jimwillsher wrote: Touch wood, it has worked fine for the last three hours.Bt there's still lots of unanswered questions: 1) Why does it allocate itself a 169.254 address? A clear indication that it's not communicating with the DHCP server. You should

Re: [slim] matroska container

2005-12-07 Thread Victor Brilon
right :) Victor On Dec 7, 2005, at 3:14 PM, zntrx wrote: A couple of years ago I converted all my cd's to flacs in a matroska container with embedded cues covers. I'm considering getting a squeezbox so as to remove the computer from the living room. I'm guessing this is a long shot but any

[slim] Re: Did The Boys At Slim Do A Bad Thing By Being So Customer Friendly?

2005-12-06 Thread Victor
about how much he was wronged. Let him go deal with the Slim folks in private. I for one am tired of listening to him cry and seeing his name in my mail inbox. Just ignore him in public, and like all well trained trolls, he'll go back under the bridge he came from. -- Victor

[slim] Re: Nokia 770

2005-11-17 Thread Victor
, be patient, should be very very soon :) -- Victor Victor's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2181 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=17837

Re: [slim] Re: Need Australian female voice talent

2005-11-11 Thread Victor Brilon
I have a friend who used to be in the voice-over business. He does the most ridiculously good Sean Connery impression (as well as Ross Perot). Want his number? :) Victor On Nov 11, 2005, at 12:11 PM, seanadams wrote: bishopdonmiguel Wrote: I'd like to spice up our phone system a bit

Re: [slim] Re: Nokia 770

2005-11-10 Thread Victor Brilon
and I think someone has posted a screenshot utility they've written for it. Victor ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Re: Buy together in DFW

2005-11-06 Thread Victor Brilon
Dallas-Fort Worth. It's where I live too :) I'd *love* to get a new box, but unfortunately the expense has not been approved by my CFO (aka my wife) since the original Slimp3 is working just fine. Victor On Nov 6, 2005, at 9:38 PM, Michaelwagner wrote: Where is DFW? -- Michaelwagner

[slim] Re: Nokia 770

2005-11-05 Thread Victor
radish Wrote: The Webpad skin is a little plain - how do the others look (I'm thinking of handheld or touchscreen)? I'll load up the production/consumer version of the software sometime in the next week or two and take screenshots of both of those as well. -- Victor

Re: [slim] Re: Nokia 770

2005-11-04 Thread Victor Brilon
I have one. And yes, it kicks ass as a Slim remote :) Victor On Nov 4, 2005, at 9:53 AM, bklaas wrote: this kills me it's not available in the U.S. I've been jonesing for this thing as my squeezeboxen kontroller ever since I posted this thread way back when: http

Re: [slim] Re: Nokia 770

2005-11-04 Thread Victor Brilon
I had posted these earlier, but I'll do it again in case you missed them. These are screenshots of browsing on the 770 in full-screen mode using the WebPad skin: http://victorland.com/slimp3/1.jpg http://victorland.com/slimp3/3.jpg http://victorland.com/slimp3/3.jpg Victor On Nov 4, 2005

Re: [slim] Totally OT - Songs about money

2005-09-21 Thread Victor Brilon
My collection shows - Shake Your Money Maker - Black Crowes (and the original by Elmore James) No Money, No Luck - BB King Money - Buddy Guy All The Pain Money Can Buy (an album title) - Fastball Going For the Money - Frank Zappa (from Playground Psychotics) Take The Money and Run - Steve Miller

Re: [slim] Re: Obtaining mp3s/flac/whatever legally

2005-09-10 Thread Victor Brilon
with their army of lawyers, which as we know they're not shy about using. Just my $.02 on this. Victor ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] AC3 and MySQL enhancements

2005-07-01 Thread Victor Brilon
a ping() function for mysql that can be inserted into the main loop. The tricky part though is to be careful if the code uses any prepared statements. See more details and code examples: http://www.mysqlusers.com/msg/19248.html Victor ___ Discuss

Re: [slim] Re: Nokia 770 Internet Appliance as Slimserver Controller

2005-05-26 Thread Victor Brilon
On May 26, 2005, at 9:43 AM, ron thigpen wrote: And it would _really_ extend the capabilities if there was Bluetooth (think: keyboard, sync to phone, VOIP headset, etc). It *does* have Bluetooth :) Not sure which profiles it supports though. I'll try to found out soon.

Re: [slim] Nokia 770 Internet Appliance as Slimserver Controller

2005-05-25 Thread Victor Brilon
sharp screen and fun to use. I think I may be able to get one of these to play with and I'd be glad to work with someone who is smarter than I am about skins to make a perfect skin for it. Anyone up for it? Victor On May 25, 2005, at 4:23 PM, Michael Herger wrote: this device that Nokia just

Re: [slim] Why Can't Slim support Play For Sure???

2005-05-17 Thread Victor Brilon
anywhere they can. Except if it's on their competitors systems. -- Amen! And this is why I am a loyal Slim customer. Their adherence to open standards and understanding of what's best for their customers is what keeps me buying Slimdevices gear. Victor

Re: [slim] Re: Artwork size

2005-05-08 Thread Victor Brilon
(or ask someone here to help you) and use ImageMagick to automagically resize all of your artwork in one batch run? Victor ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

[slim] Music Folder permission problems in RH9

2005-04-17 Thread victor guerrero
Hi there, I know it's a classic, but I just can't get 'slimserver' to read my '~./Music/MP3' directory in order to set the 'Music Folder'; I've fiddled with all possible permission settings: group membership, 777 mode on directory, even granting full ownership to 'slimserver' user; but I keep

Re: [slim] Music Folder permission problems in RH9

2005-04-17 Thread Victor Brilon
On Apr 17, 2005, at 6:46 AM, victor guerrero wrote: Hi there, I know it's a classic, but I just can't get 'slimserver' to read my '~./Music/MP3' directory in order to set the 'Music Folder'; I've fiddled with all possible permission settings: group membership, 777 mode on directory, even

Re: [slim] Music Folder permission problems in RH9

2005-04-17 Thread victor guerrero
It was the parent directory permission, '/home/user_name/', it had 700 mode, but I still don't understand how 'slimserver' could actually access it, but not its subdirectory: /home/user_name/Music/MP3 Thanks for the quick answer. gt;From: Victor Brilon lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]gt; gt;Reply-To: Slim

Re: [slim] problematic slimserver install on linux box

2005-03-21 Thread Victor Brilon
potential for disaster that way :) Victor --- root [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all I've been a windows based user of slimserver for a couple of years but I'm now trying to get it working on a separate box I'm using to learn linux, however the installing of the rpm is not going smoothly so I

Re: [slim] New Squeezebox?

2005-03-02 Thread Victor Brilon
On Mar 2, 2005, at 10:45 AM, Jack Coates wrote: http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=918 +1 on that feature request! I hope you guys don't get around to doing it too soonI need to expand my back yard. ___ Discuss mailing list

Re: [slim] Re: Help! - Album Art in Batch

2005-02-22 Thread Victor Brilon
: Victor Brilon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Slim Devices Discussion discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 5:59 PM Subject: Re: [slim] Re: Help! - Album Art in Batch Run it from the same directory as the make_cover.pl script. max barker wrote: Just tried this on windows xp. I've changed

Re: [slim] Re: Help! - Album Art in Batch

2005-02-22 Thread Victor Brilon
Thanks! Glad you got it working. Any suggestions or feedback on improving the algorithm it uses to match album covers would be greatly appreciated. Victor Nick wrote: Well, wasn't as tricky as I thought to get it running on Windows XP, having never touched PERL before. It's working its way